More Blind Stupid Luck
While with my American mates, I walked past a building that vaguely looked familar. I commented at the time about this but didn't think anything of it. A few days later I passed it again at night and checked it out. Couldn't tell what it was as it was unlabelled apart from the sign saying its daylight opening hours. I walked passed it again by chance during the day and popped in for a look.
It was the building that I thought it was as I recognised the interior instantly from the oval dome (unusual as normally spherical domes as it applies equal stresses all over the dome surface - sorry, engineer nerd kicking in). It was dome by Borromini, the same dude who did the building opposite the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona.
It was just so per chance I came across the building. The building exterior I have a single image of it in one of my 5000 artwork images I have collected and I set for my laptop screensaver. That has happened several time while in Rome, just some random bit of grey matter information in the back of the brain making me pay more attention to something obscure. The flip side of this is me wondering how many great things I walk past without even knowing it.
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